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Laura L Carsten, Professor, Crosstalks

Laura L Carsten

Professor of Psychology and the Fairleigh S. Dickinson, Jr., Professor in Public Policy at Stanford University

Laura L. Carstensen, PhD is Professor of Psychology and the Fairleigh S. Dickinson, Jr., Professor in Public Policy at Stanford University, where she is also founding director of the Stanford Center on Longevity.

For more than twenty years her research has been supported by the National Institute on Aging; in 2005 she was honored with a MERIT award which extends this support another decade. Carstensen is best known for socioemotional selectivity theory, a life-span theory of motivation, and with her students and colleagues, has published more than 150 articles on life-span development.

Her most recent empirical research focuses on ways in which motivational changes influence cognitive processing and emotional experience. Carstensen is a fellow in a number of professional organizations including the American Psychological Society and the American Psychological Association. Her honors include Stanford University’s Deans Award for Distinguished Teaching and the Master Mentor Award from the American Psychological Association (Div 20).

She has received the Distinguished Career Award from the Gerontological Society of America and in 2003, was selected as a Guggenheim Fellow. Currently, she is a member of the MacArthur Foundation network on Aging Societies and serves on the National Advisory Council on Aging. Carstensen received her B.S. from the University of Rochester and her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from West Virginia University.

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